Dan Johnston, MD, MPH, is the founder and CEO of BrainSpan and a retired Lieutenant Colonel who has served in the US Pentagon, White House, Army Surgeon General's office, Iraq, Kuwait, and Korea. Dr. Johnston sat down with John Troup, PhD, at a recent military nutrition conference to talk about the broader issues of stress and inflammation, as well as the role played by omega-3 fatty acids. “We need to be looking at nutrition as part of our armor,” Dr. Johnston explained, stressing how critical fats and fatty acids are to cell biology.